Waste Management Guide for SMEs

The Waste Management Guide is a publication that is specifically designed to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) develop and implement a customized waste management program that is tailored to their needs.

Summary

The Waste Management Guide has four parts:

• Part 1: ten real life experiences and accounts of situations observed inside various organizations (case studies).
• Part 2: a general portrait of the current waste management situation in Canada and overview of provincial/territorial regulations.
• Part 3: an operational guide to the five-step implementation of a waste management program.
• Part 4: a compendium of resources that can help support the realization of the approach described in Part 3.

Learning to manage waste materials is important since it:

• provides SMEs with the tools for rationalizing processes and work methods;
• prepares SMEs to produce a documented and reassuring environmental report for financial backers and insurers;
• involves reassessing each product’s environmental impacts, and
• enables businesses to provide the basics for the life cycle analysis of the products that go to market.

New Brunswick Contact(s):
See National Contact.

---

National Contact(s):
Environmental Protection Branch
Environment Canada
4th Floor
105 McGill Street
Montréal, Quebec  H2Y 2E7
Telephone: 514-283-4670
Toll-free (information): 1-800-463-4311
E-mail: quebec.dpe@ec.gc.ca
Web site: http://www.ec.gc.ca/envhome.html